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Blake, Debra Miriam – System: An International Journal of Educational Technology and Applied Linguistics, 2007
The School of Language Studies at the Foreign Service Institute (FSI) offers full-time, intensive language training in more than 70 languages to US diplomats and other government employees preparing to serve at US Embassies abroad. Students at FSI, the primary training institution of the US foreign affairs community, have access to a fully…
Descriptors: Counseling Services, Pilot Projects, Government Employees, Learning Strategies
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Karlsson, Leena; Kjisik, Felicity; Nordlund, Joan – System: An International Journal of Educational Technology and Applied Linguistics, 2007
This article describes a programme of autonomous language learning (ALMS) introduced at Helsinki University Language Centre in 1994. The programme was developed to encourage students to become actively involved in their own learning in terms of deciding what they need and wish to learn, setting goals and objectives, achieving these objectives, and…
Descriptors: Educational Change, Independent Study, Second Language Learning, Foreign Countries